The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see
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The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see resource for landlubbers and mariners alike.

Carol Gafford is a public librarian, family historian, amateur archivist and book savior. She is currently the youth services/outreach librarian at the Swansea Public Library and volunteers for several museum and historical societies including the Marine Museum at Fall River, the Swansea Historical Society and the Bristol Historical and Preservation society. She is the editor of Past Times, the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists and is always looking for a new project to take on.

BOSTON — The Bruins are losing a guy with 105 career NHL playoff games under his belt.

They’ll choose between two players with a combined one game of postseason experience to replace him.

Defenseman Wade Redden is out for Friday’s Game 5 with an undisclosed injury, apparently suffered in Wednesday’s Game 4 overtime win. Redden had no noticeable ailment in that game and had similar ice time to the first three games at 21 shifts for 16:59. He had three shifts in the overtime.

Julien said Redden is day to day.

In his place, the Bruins will turn to either Matt Bartkowski or Dougie Hamilton. Bartkowski was called up from Providence on Thursday evening.

Julien wouldn’t commit to which of the young defensemen he would choose Friday night. Veteran Aaron Johnson is not an option. Bartkowski took all the rushes in the morning skate with Adam McQuaid while Hamilton was with Johnson on an extra pairing, indicating Bartkowski will get the call.

“Well, we’ve got two (options),” Julien said. “Obviously, Dougie and Bart. One’s a right shot and one’s a left shot and we have to decide what we want to do with our pairings here. Once we decide that, we’ll know who to put in. They’ve both been kind of told that, ‘We’ll let you know.’ It’s one of those two guys.”

The question between the two is the disruption to the pairings Hamilton would cause by replacing the left-side defenseman Redden. Hamilton only plays the right side, so the Zdeno Chara-Dennis Seidenberg pairing would be broken up once again. That was the case in Game 2 when Andrew Ference was suspended and it proved costly to the Bruins.

If Bartkowski — who plays the left side — is inserted, he could slide into Redden’s spot on the third pairing opposite McQuaid and allow the top two pairings to stay intact.

“He’s getting more experience, he’s getting older,” Dennis Seidenberg said. “He’s definitely very solid. Very good skater, skating with the puck out of trouble. He’s got a lot of poise and if he ends up playing, I’m sure it will be good.”

Bartkowski was sent back to Providence on April 26 once Julien committed to Redden on the bottom pairing. Julien said they wanted to get Bartkowski some action, so he’s in game shape.

Bartkowski played in Providence’s comeback series win over the Hershey Bears in the first round of the AHL playoffs. He had five points in five games.

“I think it makes a world of a difference, compared to if I was just sitting around and riding the bike and bag skating and stuff like that,” Bartkowski said. “I think it definitely helps a lot.”

Like everyone else, Bartkowski was surprised to hear his name floated by Julien as an option to replace Ference in Game 2. Bartkowski was with Providence in Hershey preparing for Game 3 of that series.

“There were a couple guys who told me that,” Bartkowski said. “I’m like, ‘Well, I’m sitting here in Hershey.’ Jump on a horse or something. It was pretty funny. … I figured it was just to get in (the Maple Leafs’) heads or something.”